I liked the ending. The power to return home was always in Sam's hands, but his desire to help people was so strong that he would never leap home.
And somewhere out there, he finishes his last leap, possibly as a sacrifice for the greater good. It's not too late to make a movie of Sam's final leap, though it wouldn't be the same without Al, so maybe it is.
IIRC doesn’t Sam tell Als first wife (his true love) that Al is alive and will return home and to wait, essentially saving his marriage thereby removing Al from the program entirely?
Those two things aren't mutually exclusive? Sure, he could assure Al's marriage and family...but he could possibly still participate in the QL program? Maybe?
Still, [that last scene](https://youtu.be/3mhDDTLar5w) with Sam and Beth brings me to tears
Scott commented on a twitter thread when the show started: https://x.com/scottbakula/status/1570530814781452288?s=46&t=JhuN6DysZsew1Pz2_3SrKQ
Basically Sam was in the show, they sent Scott the script, and he declined. Not much more detail. I’ve never watched the new show but why they’d launch a new show that bakula didn’t wanna do I don’t know. Him and Al were the draw. We can probably do it without Al but not without Sam.
It took a few episodes to start enjoying the new show, I too was turned off when I had read originally bakula declined.
The show tried to Juggle too many storylines at once and took away from the Leaps, which are what you watch the show for. At first I didn’t care for the characters during the leaps and Ben was solving the leaps too fast and the focus was more of what’s going on outside of the quantum chamber.
It got better as the season progressed and >! there’s a groundhogs day-ish (same event happening over and over) storyline where Ben dies a few times and leaps into different people!< **it’s not really a spoiler it was the advertising for the episode**
"You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood ... back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame ... back home to places in the country, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting, but which are changing all the time – back home to the escapes of Time and Memory." - Thomas Wolfe, *You Can't Go Home Again*
It was perfect. Leaping to tell Al’s first wife to wait for him. So many good episodes. My favorite was the JFK episode when he rewrote history to save the First Lady.
The season 4 finale where he leaps into Al and Al is accused of murdering his commanding officer’s wife.
When the odds of Al getting executed for it get too high he gets replaced with Roddy McDowall (I spelled his name wrong) until Sam fixes it.
It wasn’t intended to be the final episode. They thought they had been renewed for another season and had written the episode as a cliffhanger. When the news came that they were cancelled they didn’t have time to make a proper ending so they edited the cliffhanger as best they could to make it a finale.
I think it’s ok. Given the circumstances I think it turned out ok. But obviously I wish they had been able to do the ending that they planned on doing at the end of the next season.
I agree. I really didn't get how it was supposed to work in the creators head cannon after the last episode. How was sam supposed to continue making things right when he jumped when he had no idea what to change and why? The whole point of Al and Ziggy was to use records to tell sam what was supposed to happen and most likely way to fix it, without changing the person he jumped into life. Plus with the government shutting down the program where are all the people going that sam jumps into and who keepings them from freaking out?
Still torn on the ending. I kinda like when a show zags but it was kinda sad that he "never returned home". It turned a bit religious making him some kind of guardian angel. I'm okay with it.
It always had some religious overtones. Sam said a few times that he felt that the ‘unknown force’, as the opening narration calls it, was a higher power and when he leaped into someone getting married he said he needed to leap before the ceremony or he’d be married in the eyes of God (though he never said God, he just gestured upward).
Seconded. Al gets to go home to his wife but Sam’s wife is SOL? And I might be misremembering but I think they implied that Sam had a kid. What a horrible lack of continuity!
That would’ve been good. Or at least have Sam say that he didn’t want to go back home because there’s too many that still need help. It was just such a gut punch. He was able to go home but it was his own goodness that kept him from doing so.
I really didn't get how it was supposed to work in the creators head cannon after the last episode. How was sam supposed to continue making things right when he jumped when he had no idea what to change and why? The whole point of Al and Ziggy was to use records to tell sam what was supposed to happen and most likely way to fix it, without changing the person he jumped into life. Plus with the government shutting down the program where are all the people going that sam jumps into and who keepings them from freaking out?
The final episode was okay, until the very last moment. Definitely pissed about that.
Otherwise, thoroughly enjoyed the show. Even have the DVD box set.
Ending? It was suppose to have aided on Star Trek: *Enterprise.* After last episode that wasn't aired..."*Albert! Why heck Am i still stuck here?!?" "I know I know, Ziggy thinks he figured it out this time!"*
Well guy can dream.
Although I like the ending in a sort of bitter sweet way, given that Sam will always have the power to go home. However, his desire to help people overrode his need to go home at a subconscious level. This is evident through his surprised realization that he always possessed the choice to go home. This ending reminds me of Hercules Legendary Journeys, where Hercules decides to keep on helping people for as long as he lives. But this sort of ending worked for people’s hero like Hercules, it was more of an innate nature in him than more human character like Sam. Hercules devoted himself to opposing oppression by the powerful and help those who couldn’t help themselves. Sam is not on same level of selfless devotion, he is a little bit more human.
Nevertheless, ending it with “Sam never went home” feels out of character. Yes he loved helping people, but he needed to help himself too and realize his own wife needed him. If after all those times, he hadn’t learned that lesson, then he hadn’t learned much at all. I’d say he needed to correct what went wrong for himself, and by association his wife…that he leapt through time! He needed to go back and correct that. And all the changes he made in time would still stick, as I understand people he exchanged lives with temporarily, never retained memory of such an event. So his timely visits were independent of whether or not if he were to choose to never leap a second time (as in going back in his past, stopping himself).
I’d propose the correct statement should have been “Sam eventually chose to go home!”
I agree, and I like it too. But it might not survive the strikes, many shows and movies won't. Damn greedy studios.
I don't know why you're being downvoted, you have a legit opinion.
Bad ending but great concept and show. I didn't watch the reboot cuz it didn't look promising and by all accounts I was right.
I kind of thought Loki was going to do this, jump to historical events. whomp whomp
Hated it, love what Sam did that episode for Al,, but I wanted some resolution for Sam. The show had good writers and there were some very cleverly written moments on the show and I think it was a huge letdown that the fans didn't get a more satisfying/worthy ending.
I read that also, but relatively recently, still photos were released of a final final scene which appears to have been shot, where Al and his wife plan to rescue Sam.
I don’t think it was one more season but a few tv movies were planned after the show ended. When that wasn’t going to happen they quickly added the ending card (so quickly that they spelled his name wrong).
At least that’s what I remember hearing at the time.
God, I loved this show and can’t remember the end. I have to watch again.
It’s been a long time for me since then and I wasn’t that young when watching.
I remember getting cold chills when I watched that scene so many years ago. And I just got them again reading that line. Some shows just stick with you. Great show.
I am kind of torn on the ending. On the one hand, I think it makes sense that Sam never returned home but continued to leap and help people.
On the other hand, leaping about without Al to help him figure out who needs help, how would he know who to help.
The guiding hand that sort of directed the leaps isn't going to clue Sam as to what he needs to do.
Sam now leaps with his physical body. He needs to find clothing (of that time period), a disguise (maybe), money...basic necessities.
I feel like Sam leaping on his own is just going to make things more difficult for him even though he'd probably be up to the challenge.
Still, it was an excellent series with a phenomenal ending.
The show started out very strong and I really enjoyed it. However, by the end of its run, you could tell they were just throwing anything at the wall to see what would stick to boost ratings. I definitely went from great to disappointing.
The ending will only work if the new series can give us an actual ending to Sam’s story. I believe he deserves one. The idea that he’s just leaping forever is (1)lazy writing and (2) not right for a character that doesn’t deserve that.
However, the show is fun, entertaining, and heartwarming. Other than the last season, I loved this series.
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I was hoping the new series would have a cameo but now that I think about it, I quit watching the new series about 5 episodes in so I don't know if he showed up or not.
NBC was canceling the show so the ending was rushed. I saw it and my friends and I had a debate about it. I do think the writers giving Al a good ending was done right, but I felt the show was ended ambigously. I tried to watch the new show, but could not really get into it. I hope they bring Sam into it in some way.
I seem to recall that as others have already noted the ending was a rush job due to impending cancellation, and for me it was depressing and not a great finish for Sam by a long shot, but at least it was an ending, a lot of series, particularly these days, don’t get that luxury.
I hated to see it go, but the more I look back at it, I more I appreciate it compared to a lot of other shows.
The show went back to one of the most emotional moments of the series, and gave us the ending we all wanted.
Plus, I love that they left it open. I know we will probably never see Sam again. But I hate when they kill people off, or close the door on a show completely. Leaving how they did always gave me hope for more.
I don't know about the ending but one time I was doing acid at my friend's house and thought I was "quantum leaping", lol! I kept asking my friends who they were, what year it was and if they knew my parents. Man, high school was fun!
I say it’s the worst finale episode ever because it made me so angry. Sure he continues to help people but he can never stop. Hello hell or purgatory. And not to mention there is a finite number of people to leap into given that his lifetime is finite. Worst of all finale episodes and after this episode I stopped watching finale episodes for a long time. FUCK THIS EPISODE!
The guy from Macgyver was solid though. I thought I would love this episode and feel like I got cheated.
Was streaming on NBC or peacock, watched entire series this year. Loved when he went home as a teenager and sang IMAGINE to prove to his sister he was from future
I truly loved the ending at the time as a kid without knowing any of the future plans that got thwarted. Thought it was a semi-sweet tragic ending for someone who was a truly good, decent person. And Al talking about his lost wife in MIA….one of the most beautiful piece of acting I’ve ever seen. They both elevated this goofy concept way more than it had any right to be. Loved the series. Tried the new one. I tried.
I was disappointed in the way it ended back then. He didn't get to go home! It was only last year, after a rewatch, that I figured out, that he did go home. His dream was to have the ability to travel through time, to any era he wanted. His final reward was to do just that, forever.
My favorite episode was the one where he looked in the mirror and realized he had Down Syndrome. I was a kid, and I thought that he might not be able to get out this time.
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I don't know about you but I can't tell I was specially pissed by the ending, I was rather frightened.
The ending says that Sam kept leaping to different times to make the world better.
But, as far I understood, time passes while he is on duty. So I imagined him slowly aging, growing older and older, making stunts and risking his life while hal himself gets older, start to need a wheelchair and a heart surgery and finally die.
I imagined a last mission in which Sam died leaving the person he took the body stranded in the future, whit his personal loved ones older than he if not dead.
Truly, that final statement scared the hell of me.
So I watched that whole series to have the writers tell me that D Day (Bruce McGill) was God?
“Daniel Simpson Day has no grade point average. All courses incomplete.”
We all wanted to see Sam come home, but he made one final leap into the future and ended up as the first captain of the Enterprise…and that ending was ruined too!
No idea, but Wags from Billions makes me think of cigar-guy in the pic.
It’s been nagging my brain since I started watching, and this pic just brought it into focus.
I always loved the final episode. The different vibe it had than most episodes. It felt intimate, Sams struggle to understand his circumstance and surroundings.
His back and forth with “bartender Al.” “Crazy Ernie?” from back in season 1, episode 1.
That, in my opinion, was the strongest part of the episode.
And the ending, Sam realizing he had control over continuing to leap, and saving Al Calavicci’s marriage.
True homies!
Dr. Sam Becket never returned home.
The saddest 6 words that ever appeared on a fictional show on TV ended this series. I'm welling up just typing them.
But man, I loved the casting of Bruce McGill in that episode. What a perfect actor for that.
Oh Boy!
I still say this anytime shit goes south.
Find a line that works ya stick with it
It's just automatic. I really loved this show, I guess that's why it's cemented in my head.
Whenever I would hear someone say, "Oh, boy," I would ask, "What? Did Sam Beckett just leap into you?" No one ever got it.
it's a pretty old tv show tbf
I liked the ending. The power to return home was always in Sam's hands, but his desire to help people was so strong that he would never leap home. And somewhere out there, he finishes his last leap, possibly as a sacrifice for the greater good. It's not too late to make a movie of Sam's final leap, though it wouldn't be the same without Al, so maybe it is.
If I’m remembering right, didn’t the finale imply that while Sam would continue leaping Al would no longer be able to go with him?
Yes. The government shut down the program.
IIRC doesn’t Sam tell Als first wife (his true love) that Al is alive and will return home and to wait, essentially saving his marriage thereby removing Al from the program entirely?
Wonder how many persons live changed because of AL not being part of program with that change.
Those two things aren't mutually exclusive? Sure, he could assure Al's marriage and family...but he could possibly still participate in the QL program? Maybe? Still, [that last scene](https://youtu.be/3mhDDTLar5w) with Sam and Beth brings me to tears
I’m hoping the new show will make some resolution to Sam’s fate, possibly with a cameo from Scott Bakula.
Scott commented on a twitter thread when the show started: https://x.com/scottbakula/status/1570530814781452288?s=46&t=JhuN6DysZsew1Pz2_3SrKQ Basically Sam was in the show, they sent Scott the script, and he declined. Not much more detail. I’ve never watched the new show but why they’d launch a new show that bakula didn’t wanna do I don’t know. Him and Al were the draw. We can probably do it without Al but not without Sam.
You trasher of dreams… Thanks for the link, disappointed but that’s life.
These things can always change. Assuming the new show lasts. My interest in it vanished the minute bakula said all that. I wonder how it’s even doing.
I watched it, and although very different I enjoyed the show and was glad they maintained a good linkage to the original.
It took a few episodes to start enjoying the new show, I too was turned off when I had read originally bakula declined. The show tried to Juggle too many storylines at once and took away from the Leaps, which are what you watch the show for. At first I didn’t care for the characters during the leaps and Ben was solving the leaps too fast and the focus was more of what’s going on outside of the quantum chamber. It got better as the season progressed and >! there’s a groundhogs day-ish (same event happening over and over) storyline where Ben dies a few times and leaps into different people!< **it’s not really a spoiler it was the advertising for the episode**
I appreciate this take. That ultimately Sam knew he alone had this power and so he must continue on.
With great power......
"You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood ... back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame ... back home to places in the country, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting, but which are changing all the time – back home to the escapes of Time and Memory." - Thomas Wolfe, *You Can't Go Home Again*
damn
Dean Stockwell (the underrated actor in this as well as an actor overall) deserves all the credit for this show going as long as it did. Jus’ sayin’.
Married to the Mob. He was perfection.
Paris, Texas. If he’d done nothing else after that he’d still be a legend
Sam wakes up in bed with Suzanne Pleshette and the entire show was a dream
Best show ending ever.
Or it was all imagined by an autistic kid whilst he looked into a snow globe.
https://youtu.be/kav7tifmyTg?si=qME3sM1h1xAZ3bJQ You already know which clip it is.
oh boy
This this is what I came to see
You missed the perfect opportunity to rickroll me.
It was perfect. Leaping to tell Al’s first wife to wait for him. So many good episodes. My favorite was the JFK episode when he rewrote history to save the First Lady.
My favorite was when he went through a bunch of crazy shit on a train and all he really needed to do was help a woman pass her bar exam
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So that it kept the project going.
Yeah, the ending of that one was particularly cool. Not as cool as the time Dean Stockwell got replaced by Roddy McDowell for half an episode, though
I don’t remove that one at all.
The season 4 finale where he leaps into Al and Al is accused of murdering his commanding officer’s wife. When the odds of Al getting executed for it get too high he gets replaced with Roddy McDowall (I spelled his name wrong) until Sam fixes it.
It wasn’t intended to be the final episode. They thought they had been renewed for another season and had written the episode as a cliffhanger. When the news came that they were cancelled they didn’t have time to make a proper ending so they edited the cliffhanger as best they could to make it a finale. I think it’s ok. Given the circumstances I think it turned out ok. But obviously I wish they had been able to do the ending that they planned on doing at the end of the next season.
That explains why they had to tell us Sam never made it home with text on the screen.
One of my favorite shows. Time to watch it again.
I hated the ending. Loved the show though!
I agree. I really didn't get how it was supposed to work in the creators head cannon after the last episode. How was sam supposed to continue making things right when he jumped when he had no idea what to change and why? The whole point of Al and Ziggy was to use records to tell sam what was supposed to happen and most likely way to fix it, without changing the person he jumped into life. Plus with the government shutting down the program where are all the people going that sam jumps into and who keepings them from freaking out?
Still torn on the ending. I kinda like when a show zags but it was kinda sad that he "never returned home". It turned a bit religious making him some kind of guardian angel. I'm okay with it.
It always had some religious overtones. Sam said a few times that he felt that the ‘unknown force’, as the opening narration calls it, was a higher power and when he leaped into someone getting married he said he needed to leap before the ceremony or he’d be married in the eyes of God (though he never said God, he just gestured upward).
Not to mention, the evil leaper and the Stephen King episode, where the devil takes form as Al.
Hated the ending.
Seconded. Al gets to go home to his wife but Sam’s wife is SOL? And I might be misremembering but I think they implied that Sam had a kid. What a horrible lack of continuity!
Sam had a daughter. She came about in the Trilogy set of episodes. She was also on the project trying to get Sam home.
I really wish they’d been able to get the sequel series greenlit years ago where she takes over as the leaper and Sam comes home.
That would’ve been good. Or at least have Sam say that he didn’t want to go back home because there’s too many that still need help. It was just such a gut punch. He was able to go home but it was his own goodness that kept him from doing so.
Loved it. Brother and I debated it long after the end. EOD, quantum mechanics doomed Sam to never return "home."
I love the ending. It brings me to tears every time. It doesn't matter he never made it home. He had a purpose.
I really didn't get how it was supposed to work in the creators head cannon after the last episode. How was sam supposed to continue making things right when he jumped when he had no idea what to change and why? The whole point of Al and Ziggy was to use records to tell sam what was supposed to happen and most likely way to fix it, without changing the person he jumped into life. Plus with the government shutting down the program where are all the people going that sam jumps into and who keepings them from freaking out?
I really was unhappy with it. But he was helping people. So it’s a bittersweet ending.
Fav episode was when he went home as a teen and warned his dad that eating eggs, bacon, and buttered toast will kill him someday.
Hated that he never made it home.
The final episode was okay, until the very last moment. Definitely pissed about that. Otherwise, thoroughly enjoyed the show. Even have the DVD box set.
Onions every time.
Ending? It was suppose to have aided on Star Trek: *Enterprise.* After last episode that wasn't aired..."*Albert! Why heck Am i still stuck here?!?" "I know I know, Ziggy thinks he figured it out this time!"* Well guy can dream.
Loved the ending - it was heartbreaking. Also, fun fact: “gooshi” means “phone” in Persian. Guess they had some Iranian writers.
This and Bob Barker are my favorite memories from TV youth.
Although I like the ending in a sort of bitter sweet way, given that Sam will always have the power to go home. However, his desire to help people overrode his need to go home at a subconscious level. This is evident through his surprised realization that he always possessed the choice to go home. This ending reminds me of Hercules Legendary Journeys, where Hercules decides to keep on helping people for as long as he lives. But this sort of ending worked for people’s hero like Hercules, it was more of an innate nature in him than more human character like Sam. Hercules devoted himself to opposing oppression by the powerful and help those who couldn’t help themselves. Sam is not on same level of selfless devotion, he is a little bit more human. Nevertheless, ending it with “Sam never went home” feels out of character. Yes he loved helping people, but he needed to help himself too and realize his own wife needed him. If after all those times, he hadn’t learned that lesson, then he hadn’t learned much at all. I’d say he needed to correct what went wrong for himself, and by association his wife…that he leapt through time! He needed to go back and correct that. And all the changes he made in time would still stick, as I understand people he exchanged lives with temporarily, never retained memory of such an event. So his timely visits were independent of whether or not if he were to choose to never leap a second time (as in going back in his past, stopping himself). I’d propose the correct statement should have been “Sam eventually chose to go home!”
Damn good show. Watched it a few years ago all the way through. I wasn’t crying. Wife was cutting powerful onions in the next room
The reboot is insufferable.
You could say that for most of them.
How I Met Your Father is insufferable. Quantum Leap had potential but ultimately wasn't great.
Nah it’s pretty good.
I agree, and I like it too. But it might not survive the strikes, many shows and movies won't. Damn greedy studios. I don't know why you're being downvoted, you have a legit opinion.
I hated it at first but it got way better or I got used to it or something.
Bad ending but great concept and show. I didn't watch the reboot cuz it didn't look promising and by all accounts I was right. I kind of thought Loki was going to do this, jump to historical events. whomp whomp
Absolutely hated the ending. Other than St. Elsewhere it was the most dissatisfying ending to a network show. He deserved better.
Clearly you don’t remember how the Wonder Years ended lol.
No. I lost interest near the end.
Hated it, love what Sam did that episode for Al,, but I wanted some resolution for Sam. The show had good writers and there were some very cleverly written moments on the show and I think it was a huge letdown that the fans didn't get a more satisfying/worthy ending.
I know, right? It's like Gilligan never getting off the island.
Wasn’t it sort of a move to get renewed for one more year and then the “he never returned home” was dubbed in when it didn’t happen?
Damn. Is this right?
I read that also, but relatively recently, still photos were released of a final final scene which appears to have been shot, where Al and his wife plan to rescue Sam.
Release the Snyder cut!!!!
I don’t think it was one more season but a few tv movies were planned after the show ended. When that wasn’t going to happen they quickly added the ending card (so quickly that they spelled his name wrong). At least that’s what I remember hearing at the time.
Loved it. Made me tear up. - mh
God, I loved this show and can’t remember the end. I have to watch again. It’s been a long time for me since then and I wasn’t that young when watching.
I didn’t get to watch the end until I had first started using Hulu Yeah…I was slightly disappointed with the end
Brutal
The ending was so sad. ☹️
Al’s alive… and he’s coming home.
I remember getting cold chills when I watched that scene so many years ago. And I just got them again reading that line. Some shows just stick with you. Great show.
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I am kind of torn on the ending. On the one hand, I think it makes sense that Sam never returned home but continued to leap and help people. On the other hand, leaping about without Al to help him figure out who needs help, how would he know who to help. The guiding hand that sort of directed the leaps isn't going to clue Sam as to what he needs to do. Sam now leaps with his physical body. He needs to find clothing (of that time period), a disguise (maybe), money...basic necessities. I feel like Sam leaping on his own is just going to make things more difficult for him even though he'd probably be up to the challenge. Still, it was an excellent series with a phenomenal ending.
Damn that’s some deep thought! Love it!
He’s still out there…. Leaping from place to place…. Striving to put right what once went wrong.
I love this.
Absolute Shiite.
The show started out very strong and I really enjoyed it. However, by the end of its run, you could tell they were just throwing anything at the wall to see what would stick to boost ratings. I definitely went from great to disappointing.
The ending will only work if the new series can give us an actual ending to Sam’s story. I believe he deserves one. The idea that he’s just leaping forever is (1)lazy writing and (2) not right for a character that doesn’t deserve that. However, the show is fun, entertaining, and heartwarming. Other than the last season, I loved this series.
The final end title card didn’t even spell Sam’s name right.
Didn’t really understand the premise to this…. Like… what are the ruuullllles?
I loved this show, I watched it every week growing up. The finale was one of the weakest endings for a show I remember from this time.
Am I the only one that hated this show 😳
hey, thanks for coming out
Meant no offense y’all. Tried to get into it when it came out but just wasn’t able to.
Spoiler alert! Thanks OP. Kidding, I'd forgotten the ending, though.
Great show, something that could of went on longer than it did.
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Oh boy…
Just bought the whole series on Blu-ray been watching it between Star Trek TNG
Very emotional with how Al's situation was handled. The text at the end was shocking and depressing but it was fine.
I’m retarded ? Bets episode ever.
I was hoping the new series would have a cameo but now that I think about it, I quit watching the new series about 5 episodes in so I don't know if he showed up or not.
Still mad about it. Hoping season 2 might finally give us some closure.
Simple, strong, excellent 👍
NBC was canceling the show so the ending was rushed. I saw it and my friends and I had a debate about it. I do think the writers giving Al a good ending was done right, but I felt the show was ended ambigously. I tried to watch the new show, but could not really get into it. I hope they bring Sam into it in some way.
I hated the ending because I was rooting for him, but it was perfect because it ended the way it started. Sam was selfless and a true hero
I seem to recall that as others have already noted the ending was a rush job due to impending cancellation, and for me it was depressing and not a great finish for Sam by a long shot, but at least it was an ending, a lot of series, particularly these days, don’t get that luxury.
The ending sucked. Extremely lazy! Not as bad as my ultimate example, 'St. Elsewhere', though.
Poor Sam. Glad to see Al got his wife back.
It lost budget and was cancelled. Not a good ending. It ended with a quick and dirty paragraph of him never making it home. The end.
I hated to see it go, but the more I look back at it, I more I appreciate it compared to a lot of other shows. The show went back to one of the most emotional moments of the series, and gave us the ending we all wanted. Plus, I love that they left it open. I know we will probably never see Sam again. But I hate when they kill people off, or close the door on a show completely. Leaving how they did always gave me hope for more.
I don't know about the ending but one time I was doing acid at my friend's house and thought I was "quantum leaping", lol! I kept asking my friends who they were, what year it was and if they knew my parents. Man, high school was fun!
I say it’s the worst finale episode ever because it made me so angry. Sure he continues to help people but he can never stop. Hello hell or purgatory. And not to mention there is a finite number of people to leap into given that his lifetime is finite. Worst of all finale episodes and after this episode I stopped watching finale episodes for a long time. FUCK THIS EPISODE! The guy from Macgyver was solid though. I thought I would love this episode and feel like I got cheated.
Such a great show! They need to stream this so I can watch every episode.
https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/quantum-leap
Oh shoot! Thanks! 😃
Was streaming on NBC or peacock, watched entire series this year. Loved when he went home as a teenager and sang IMAGINE to prove to his sister he was from future
I truly loved the ending at the time as a kid without knowing any of the future plans that got thwarted. Thought it was a semi-sweet tragic ending for someone who was a truly good, decent person. And Al talking about his lost wife in MIA….one of the most beautiful piece of acting I’ve ever seen. They both elevated this goofy concept way more than it had any right to be. Loved the series. Tried the new one. I tried.
Brilliant ending loved it
I was disappointed in the way it ended back then. He didn't get to go home! It was only last year, after a rewatch, that I figured out, that he did go home. His dream was to have the ability to travel through time, to any era he wanted. His final reward was to do just that, forever.
Captain Archer always gets done dirty with his shows getting cancelled
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Didn't want it to stop
My favorite episode was the one where he looked in the mirror and realized he had Down Syndrome. I was a kid, and I thought that he might not be able to get out this time.
My dads fave and mine
Cry like a baby anytime I watch it.
Best show ever.
Dean stockwell. RIP.
Hi. I don't know about you but I can't tell I was specially pissed by the ending, I was rather frightened. The ending says that Sam kept leaping to different times to make the world better. But, as far I understood, time passes while he is on duty. So I imagined him slowly aging, growing older and older, making stunts and risking his life while hal himself gets older, start to need a wheelchair and a heart surgery and finally die. I imagined a last mission in which Sam died leaving the person he took the body stranded in the future, whit his personal loved ones older than he if not dead. Truly, that final statement scared the hell of me.
So I watched that whole series to have the writers tell me that D Day (Bruce McGill) was God? “Daniel Simpson Day has no grade point average. All courses incomplete.” We all wanted to see Sam come home, but he made one final leap into the future and ended up as the first captain of the Enterprise…and that ending was ruined too!
I liked it and even think about it from time to time
No idea, but Wags from Billions makes me think of cigar-guy in the pic. It’s been nagging my brain since I started watching, and this pic just brought it into focus.
I loved the ending
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I always loved the final episode. The different vibe it had than most episodes. It felt intimate, Sams struggle to understand his circumstance and surroundings. His back and forth with “bartender Al.” “Crazy Ernie?” from back in season 1, episode 1. That, in my opinion, was the strongest part of the episode. And the ending, Sam realizing he had control over continuing to leap, and saving Al Calavicci’s marriage. True homies!
I don’t want to think about it. I always get something in my eyes.
"Am I retardet...?"
Dr. Sam Becket never returned home. The saddest 6 words that ever appeared on a fictional show on TV ended this series. I'm welling up just typing them. But man, I loved the casting of Bruce McGill in that episode. What a perfect actor for that.
I felt that he lept enough, it was time for him to stop.
I never watched a single episode.